MGB:_In this term, we will see if Gorsuch is a Kennedy or a Scalia. If he is a Kennedy then the only consistent anti-abortion justice would be Thomas. The stare decises crowd on Roe would be everyone but Thomas, making it immoral to argue that presidential elections have anything to do with abortion. Of course, even if he is like Scalia, only two Roe repealers do not a movement strategy justify.
If the couple were picking a standard cake from a book, the baker has no room to say no and it appears he said as much. They could have simply ordered the cake from him and gotten a cake topper with two grooms online. If they want something unique to them that involves artistic compromise, he cannot be forced into that relationship, whether the topic is gay marriage, building a cake that is shaped like a B-2 bomber or with a message to not eat meat. This is not a hard call and I expect even Kennedy, who is the most pro-gay rights justice, will see it that way. As long as the opinion honors both facts, we can have our cake and eat it too.
The Janus v. AFSCME case is part of the right wing to do list. The Court should make easy work of it, but it won’t and the child of Ann Gorsuch is the deciding vote. This will certainly force unions into a different focus if it goes as it might. It is time to end opposition and Occupy Capitalism. Shifting education and street work to local employee-owned companies and converting the unions to a representative stockholder association is their best bet.
With respect to MSW, these cases are to be decided by the Constitution, not Catholic morality or even its social teachings.
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